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Software-Defined Networking (SDN) has raised the boundaries of cloud computing by offering unparalleled levels of control and flexibility to system administrators over their virtualized environments. To properly embrace this new era of…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2013-08-02 Kaiwen Zhang , Hans-Arno Jacobsen

Fuzz testing, or fuzzing, has become one of the de facto standard techniques for bug finding in the software industry. In general, fuzzing provides various inputs to the target program to discover unhandled exceptions and crashes. In…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-09-20 Yifan Wang , Yuchen Zhang , Chengbin Pang , Peng Li , Nikolaos Triandopoulos , Jun Xu

Traffic Steering (TS) dynamically allocates user traffic across cells to enhance Quality of Experience (QoE), load balance, and spectrum efficiency in 5G networks. However, TS algorithms remain vulnerable to adversarial conditions such as…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-17 Seyed Bagher Hashemi Natanzi , Hossein Mohammadi , Bo Tang , Vuk Marojevic

This paper discusses the usage of network traffic properties in passive network monitoring which are used in recognizing and identifying anomaly.

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2013-05-01 Gobithasan Rudrusamy , Azrudin Ahmad , Rahmat Budiarto , Azman Samsudin , Sureswaran Ramadass

Network monitoring and measurement are crucial in network management to facilitate quality of service routing and performance evaluation. Software Defined Networking (SDN) makes network management easier by separating the control plane and…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2017-10-17 Zhiyang Su , Ting Wang , Yu Xia , Mounir Hamdi

Fuzzing network servers is a technical challenge, since the behavior of the target server depends on its state over a sequence of multiple messages. Existing solutions are costly and difficult to use, as they rely on manually-customized…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-10-05 Roberto Natella

Fuzzing has become one of the most popular techniques to identify bugs in software. To improve the fuzzing process, a plethora of techniques have recently appeared in academic literature. However, evaluating and comparing these techniques…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-08-17 David Paaßen , Sebastian Surminski , Michael Rodler , Lucas Davi

Real-time networks based on Ethernet require robust quality-of-service for time-critical traffic. The Time-Sensitive Networking (TSN) collection of standards enables this in real-time environments like vehicle on-board networks. Runtime…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-10-11 Tobias Haugg , Mohammad Fazel Soltani , Timo Häckel , Philipp Meyer , Franz Korf , Thomas C. Schmidt

Coverage-guided Greybox Fuzzing (CGF) is one of the most successful and widely-used techniques for bug hunting. Two major approaches are adopted to optimize CGF: (i) to reduce search space of inputs by inferring relationships between input…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-01-13 Kunpeng Zhang , Xi Xiao , Xiaogang Zhu , Ruoxi Sun , Minhui Xue , Sheng Wen

Telecommunications networks rely on configurations to define routing behavior, especially in the Border Gateway Protocol (BGP), where misconfigurations can lead to severe outages and security breaches, as demonstrated by the 2021 Facebook…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-12-08 Chenlu Zhang , Amirmohammad Pasdar , Van-Thuan Pham

Software-Defined Networking (SDN) introduces a centralized network control and management by separating the data plane from the control plane which facilitates traffic flow monitoring, security analysis and policy formulation. However, it…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2019-09-05 Trung V. Phan , Syed Tasnimul Islam , Tri Gia Nguyen , Thomas Bauschert

Hardware Fuzzing emerged as one of the crucial techniques for finding security flaws in modern hardware designs by testing a wide range of input scenarios. One of the main challenges is creating high-quality input seeds that maximize…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Raghul Saravanan , Sudipta Paria , Aritra Dasgupta , Swarup Bhunia , Sai Manoj P D

Small cells are a cost-effective way to reliably expand network coverage and provide significantly increased capacity for end users. The ultra-high bandwidth available at millimeter (mmWave) and Terahertz (THz) frequencies can effectively…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-05-12 Angela Sara Cacciapuoti , Ramanathan Subramanian , Kaushik Roy Chowdhury , Marcello Caleffi

Fuzzing is a widely used software security testing technique that is designed to identify vulnerabilities in systems by providing invalid or unexpected input. Continuous fuzzing systems like OSS-FUZZ have been successful in finding security…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-07-04 Chaitanya Rahalkar

Many protocol implementations are reactive systems, where the protocol process is in continuous interaction with other processes and the environment. If a bug can be exposed only in a certain state, a fuzzer needs to provide a specific…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-06-06 Jinsheng Ba , Marcel Böhme , Zahra Mirzamomen , Abhik Roychoudhury

Fog Computing is now emerging as the dominating paradigm bridging the compute and connectivity gap between sensing devices (a.k.a. "things") and latency-sensitive services. However, as fog deployments scale by accumulating numerous devices…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-11-05 Zacharias Georgiou , Chryssis Georgiou , George Pallis , Elad Michael Schiller , Demetris Trihinas

In the interconnected power system network, instability problems are caused mainly by the low frequency oscillations of 0.2 to 2.5 Hz. The supplementary control signal in addition with AVR and high gain excitation systems are provided by…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2009-12-23 M. Mary Linda , N. Kesavan Nair

To ensure the reliability of DNN systems and address the test generation problem for neural networks, this paper proposes a fuzzing test generation technique based on many-objective optimization algorithms. Traditional fuzz testing employs…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-11-05 Dongcheng Li , W. Eric Wong , Hu Liu , Man Zhao

Software-defined networking (SDN) was devised to simplify network management and automate infrastructure sharing in wired networks. These benefits motivated the application of SDN in wireless sensor networks to leverage solutions for…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-03-03 Gustavo A. Nunez Segura , Arsenia Chorti , Cintia Borges Margi

The control logic models built by Simulink or Ptolemy have been widely used in industry scenes. It is an urgent need to ensure the safety and security of the control logic models. Test case generation technologies are widely used to ensure…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-11-10 Yixiao Yang